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Invention as Public Service at MITInspire, Support, and Scale Student Innovation
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Your generation wears its commitment to the greater good quite lightly. You use your skills to help repair a broken world, however, you see nothing remarkable about it; you simply expect it of each other, and of yourselves.
- President Susan Hockfield
Commencement Address to the Class of 2010
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No MIT students were harmedmaking this presentation
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Imagine if we applied MIT’s entrepreneurial talent to to today’s urgent humanitarian challenges
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Agriculture, Processing
Education, Training
Emergency, Disaster Relief
Energy, Environment
Employment, Entrepreneurship
Housing, Transportation
Health, Accessibility
Mobiles, ICTs
Water, Sanitation
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Involve the world-wide MIT community in “inventionas public service”
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Prizes incentivize innovation both where markets failand when problem space is complex
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Annual competition that awards implementation grants
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Amrita SaigalTeam Komera, ME ‘10
Sanitary Pad Manufacturing Process for the Developing World
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• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering – 2010
• Currently working for Procter & Gamble Gillette in Process & Engineering
• Passionate about Women’s Empowerment through technology
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• In Rwanda, currently:• 36% of women miss • 50 days of school or work a year
• because they cannot afford sanitary pads
Need for Komera
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Pad Making Process• Pulp
• Our Task:
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Alpha Prototype
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Social Entrepreneurship
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• Mentoring
• Funding
• Networking
• Socializing Komera
IDEAS helped Komera move forward…
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Why YOU should get involved
• Resourceful
• Understand the Business Aspects
• Global Perspective
• Implementation and Scaling
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What’s in it for YOU….Brilliance + Experience = Large Scale Social Impact
You have the opportunity to extend your reach beyond your current space of engagement and make a positive
difference
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Launch in the context of growth and celebration
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Experience suggests now is the right time
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Lifecycle1-3 Discovery, Design
Students learn aboutdesign challenges,teams propose solutionsand receive feedbackon their ideas.
4-5 Decide, DeployJudges nominate winners;they are announced at theawards ceremony and have ayear to implement their projects.
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PerfectSightDeveloped an
innovative, mobile system for diagnosing
refractive eye conditions for under $1
using cell phones.http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/teams/view/19
Year awarded: 2010 Location: India
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Egg-energyDeveloped innovative
lighting and energy leasing franchise that aims
to eliminate costly, unhealthy, and dangerous
kerosene lanterns used around the world.
http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/teams/view/2
Year awarded: 2009 Location: Tanzania
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KonbitDeveloped platform to
help communities rebuild by collecting the skills of residents, allowing non-
governmental organizations to find and
employ them..http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/teams/view/28
Year awarded: 2010 Location: Haiti
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Alumni involvement will be critical to the success ofIDEAS, the MIT Global Challenge, and our teams
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How can we achieve that success, together?
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Thank youLars Hasselblad [email protected]
On the web http://globalchallenge.mit.eduOn Twitter @mitchallenge